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ANOTHER WIN FOR CLARK M. D. Hammonds Plater Scores His Fifth Victory of Meeting. Jockey Dominick Rides Three Winners Favorites Win Majority of Races. HAVANA, Cuba, February 25. Well backed horses won a majority of Uie races at Oriental Park this afternoon ami form -was much in evidence. In the second race Clark M. scored his fifth victory of the meeting, coming from behind and beat-injC his opponents in decisive fashion. This marked that horses twelfth winning race since Dee Hammond took him last spring. Clark M. was ridden by Dominick. who also won the following race with lliedoden. The latter made all the pace and won with much in reserve. The real struggle in this race was for second and third money, five horses finishing so closely bunched that the proverbial blanket would have covered them. Frascuelo was awarded second place, Petlar third and less than a half length separated the second and sixth horses. Dominick rode bis third winner of the afternoon when In- landed Breeze a winner in the closing race. Snow Queen furnished a surprise in the opening dash, drawing away into an easy lead after rounding tli! far turn and winning well in hand. Foster Einbry, the favorite, lost whatever chance he may have had by being jostled at the start. A. Lezamas Delancey gave Ills backers several anxious moments near the end of the fourth race when he just lasted to win by the smallest of margins after leading throughout. Hue and Sam McMeekin, on their good behavior today, fought out an interesting stretch duel, the l former getting the decision, although tiring-badly, ill the-fihaFTitrMesfi: " Jmra - - A. H. Diaz Don Thrush pulled up lame after finishing second, to Breeze in the closing race. Max Hirsch has delayed his departure for New York a few days. He has leen detained to straighten the affairs of the stable of G. W. Loft and is arranging for the shipment of the racer John I. Day back to the United States. This is the only horse reserved from the recent sale of the Loft thoroughbreds. After the running of the El Gritte de Itaire Handicap yesterday the stewards issued a ruling suspending jockey C. Jackson, who had the mount on the winner, Etruscan, for twenty days for carrying the horses out at the head of the stretch and then going over to the inside rail for the purpose of shutting off competition. Bob .linker, the beaten favorite in the first race yesterday, bled during the running of that contest. The entry of L. H. Dickersons Bora was ordered refused for the remainder of the meeting because of his crazy antics at the post yesterday in the third Rice.